Aye, if only he could make an argument we fraudulently mis-sold him A deal that would benefit him Which resulted in him turning down Sheff We’d. It won’t happen but I can dream. I really feel for the lad, aside from everything we’ve treated him appallingly and potentially had a career defining impact on him. It’s ethically deplorable, genuinely ashamed of the club

I hope the lad goes after us for loss of earnings after selling him a pup with the deal here.

It's the fact we went to the effort of announcing it all and do media that confuses me

Wouldn't be the first time, remember the wee gem

There is zero chance the EFL will approve it, waste of time and money.

We're in proper dog ate my homework territory with all this now, it's laughable. If it was any club but ours I'd be laughing my arse off, what a joke we are.

Any reports on how Buckley got on last night?

Imagine they allow it and Rovers avoid relegation on the last day with McGuire scoring the winner, all hell would (rightly) break loose. The football authorities got away lightly with the Tevez and Mascherano case years ago, don't think they can take that risk again.

Not a hope in hell the transfer has gone through. The EFL can't bend the rules or be lenient otherwise they'd be open to every legal challenge under the sun from other clubs. Ultimately it doesn't matter which form wasn't submitted, whether it was wrong or late, we didn't do it correctly so the form is null and void.

Tronstad doesn’t deserve criticism for his collective performances to date but he was bloody awful Saturday. His touch was miles off it, continually tried to pass through gaps that weren’t there and got caught several times receiving the ball and trying to turn (into Colback) his normally brilliant awareness had deserted him Saturday. There were no doubt contributing factors in playing alongside Moran and trying to cover the huge gaps JRC was leaving when trying to do his Poundland Trent Alexander Arnold impressions. It was however Tronstands worst game in a rovers shirt by some margin

I sit/stand toward the back of N05 and he looked to fairly angrily shout something at those stood in the bottom corner of N05. Dunno if he was pissed off/reacting to something as he’d wasted good crossing opportunity’s twice in succession and was rightly getting a bit of constructive criticism.

Yeah, they’re all Standard docs that get filed easily and will be part of a package we have laid out. Rick here, sign here, etc. most of which get done by a secretary/staff while negotiations take place, especially on deadline day when time is tight. That is why this makes no sense, it’s not like we’d had several days to fill out the bulk of the paperwork ready to go

The thing is the only form the EFL are arsed about is the players registration, something that could be draft filled the minute negotiations begin to take place. There is realistically no reason why this form would not be successfully successfully submitted on time for a player you were negotiating with for over 48 hours.

The Facebook fans are unbelievable, beggars belief how accepting they are of everything.

With the stream consciousness like coverage of football from every corner of the globe being fed through our phones each minute it’s very hard to get our plight out to the wider fan base. Venky’s being horrendous owners and cocking up/torpedoing transfers isn’t going to be on the top of most fans Instagram feed unfortunately. Even if there is a story on North West tonight of an evening, how many people actually watch it these days? We’re also one in a very long list of teams with terrible owners. Many of whom would argue their managed decline is worse than ours, as every fan is want to do. Crystal Palace moaning about getting thumped (whilst still comfortably in the PL, having spent big in Jan) and their fans giving the keeper pelters will generate far more news than us sadly.

Buckley playing in the 21’s tomorrow isn’t he, assuming Fleck, MacFaz and Billy will be too?

It’s the definition of naivety or stupidity depending on how you look at it. When your principles and patterns of play can be so easily picked apart by QPR (who are shite) then the obvious answer is the principles aren’t actually up to much. We honestly made Colback look like a world beater yesterday which is staggering.

The most disappointing thing is that Chair isn’t that good, show him on to his left foot and he struggles. Yet we let him drop in and cut on to his right constantly. The shape was partly to blame as neither JRC nor Dolan got a grip of marking him or pressing effectively when he got the ball. Chrisene did a much better job on Willock in the first half although he did get trousered pace wise when Willock went off

Getting relegated runs the risk of losing Cat 1 academy status too and vastly reduces our chances of producing whartons, etc

Agreed and I think this is where we do need to have some nuance and separate the two issues of off field shit show and on field shit show. Whilst there is no denying the two have a link, our performance today was unacceptable regardless of anything else that’s going on. there was a point in the first half where JRC, hyam and Wharton stood, after Armstrong missed his 57th chance hands out looking at each saying “what do we do” they looked totally lost, which considering hyam, JRC and Scott have probably 200 championship appearances between is a pretty damping indictment of how we set up to play

We’re just lucky that the way QPR lined up and Armstrong’s lack of sense he kept playing himself onto his own non existent left foot and Hyams right otherwise we’d have been in deep shit

Laughable wasn’t it, twice in the first 10 they showed chair onto his left foot and he went nowhere immediately that success was followed up with showing him onto his right for the remaining 90 mins!

For all of JDT’s bravery and honesty in calling out/alluding to the owners, Waggot, Suhail’s carrying on he repeatedly sets up a team that folds like a deck chair and for that he does need to be taken to task. It’s not like we’ve had an out of character bad game today following a tumultuous week. We’ve been dog shit since December playing football that an u9 team could read where the next pass is going. in some ways the disaster of the pitch is letting Jon off lightly for what an (avoidable) shit show we are on it

Agreed, he also claimed a couple of low shot/crosses that Leo would have palmed out into the middle of the 6 yard box.

JRC was bloody awful today, Szmodics was garbage first half and then spent the second doing some ‘show pressing’ i.e. wasting energy looking busy before seemingly spitting his dummy out and going off injured. S Wharton is an honest servant but by Christ how he’s made it to the championship being so one footed is beyond me. The amount of trouble we play ourselves into as he has to shift on to his left or play backward because he can’t play off his right is criminal.